It is unacceptable that minor offenders, whose inadequacy and persistent petty offending is due to mental illness, should be imprisoned because of starvation of mental health resources in communities.
Modern-day offenders, whose numbers, sadly, are increasing, are not so lucky.
So the suspected offenders whose computers had been seized were entirely innocent.
This proposal would restrict sentences of 25 years to life mainly to offenders whose third felony was serious or violent.
Historians agree that among the convicts were political offenders whose only offense was to have protested against injustice and misrule.
As for expiation, we endeavor to find the worst offenders, whose transgressions can stand in for everyone's.
Here again, deterrence doctrine differs from retribution, because true deterrence allows offenders whose skills are needed by the community to be spared sanctions.
He had a history of offering unusually light plea deals to Hasidic offenders, whose names his office kept confidential — a practice unique to the Hasidic community.
Before the policy change in 2009, medical examiners were permitted to share only the names of offenders whose DNA appeared to exactly match crime-scene DNA.
This sympathy extended to political offenders, whose plight was described in "Siberia and the Exile System," an 1891 expose by George Kennan, a relative of his modern namesake.
His arrest last February, immigration records show, was a result of Operation Coldplay, which combs probation records to find past sex offenders whose immigration status makes them deportable.
